It was slightly cooler tonight. How exciting! Today was another one of those average days - the kind that don't stick in your memory. That's one of the reasons I sit here and type this. Years from now I can look at this and remember when an average day meant going to work at the museum for a few hours, during which it was sort of busy, but not really. We played with gak (sort of like silly putty) and musical instruments (things little kids can bang on, mostly). Then I came home, took out the garbage, played with the kids (all except for Lexy, who was in the grip of a video game), ate dinner (mostly leftovers, but really good ones), monitored bath activity (got sort of wet), checked e-mail (obsessively), Let Lexy and The Dickens take turns holding the Hissing Cockroaches (they stop hissing after they've been held for awhile), fed and watered Lucky the rat (even though one of the conditions for keeping her was that the kids were supposed to do this), talked with Jen in between all of the other stuff (we can't hold whole conversations when the kids are awake, unfortunately), and left for work again, at which I delivered the Wall st. Journal for several hours, while listening to the following cds: V/A "It's Gonna be Hot in the Cannibal Pot Tonite" (Ptolemaic Terrascope compilation), Nurse With Wound "Man With The Woman Face", Current 93 "Live at Bar Maldoror" and "Dawn", Breathe Stone/The Does "Crow Omens/Sleep Deprivation Blues", and Breathe Stone "Hex Thistle" And yes, all of them were pleasantly enjoyable. I once saw the original artwork for the Nurse With Wound cd listed above, and I think it illustrated more than just about any other artwork I've seen that you really have to see the original to really appreciate the full impact of a piece of art. This particular piece is very 3 dimensional, and a two dimensional reproduction is just not quite as cool. Okay, to bed now, so I can get up to go to Hidden Villa tomorrow.